The Gorals - Highlanders of Carpathia (4K, UHD)

The film presents portraits of several Polish highlanders who perform the same professions that have occupied their ancestors over the past several centuries. These are people whose characters are shaped when confronted with nature, inaccessible mountains, weather changes and animals. The high peaks of the Tatra mountains become more than just a silent observer of our heroes. Around the mountains, everything changes and they stand unshaken. Is the culture of Podhale highlanders sustainable, or could these be the final times for these people living this lifestyle in the mountains, and not only as folklore in the museums of folk art?

PRODUCTION
Inbornmedia Sp. z o. o.
Marchello Production

DISTRIBUTION

DIRECTOR
Filip Luft

PRODUCER
Maciej Pawełczyk
Radek Wikiera
Siarhei Marchyk

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Siarhei Marchyk
Radek Wikiera
Jan Wierzejski

AUDIO MIXER
Andrei Kiselev

CAMERA ASSISTANT
Alexey Nikulin
Dzmitry Kniha

AERIAL SHOTS

EDITOR
Maciej Pawełczyk

ASSISTANT EDITOR
Dmytro Razin
Alex Kozieł

COLOR CORRECTION
Witold Tadeusz Basiewicz

PRODUCTION MANAGER
Radek Wikiera

2nd PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Marita Bierońska

PRE-PRODUCTION SUPPORT
Marta Krzeptowska

3D ANIMATION
Wajowo Sp. z o. o.

AUDIO POST-PRODUCTION
Noiseroom

NARRATION
Piotr Borowiec

MUSIC
Bartłomiej Zaborowski
BART Music Library
Audionetwork

ADDITIONAL INSTRUMENTS
Piotr Majerczyk

FILM EQUIPMENT
Inbornmedia
Marchello Production

TRANSLATION
Chris Skladzien

[MrBlueregard]

Would love see a doc on Goral immigration to Chicago Illinois circa 1900

[adrianelittle]

Not Polish only, Goralci live in Slovakia too. The Polish Slovak border goes right through the mountains and Gorals live on both sides.

[barto]

My moher was 100% Góralka from Zabełcze, so that makes me 50% Góral. So cool!
And because of the nearby ancient capitol of Poland, the city of Kraków, Górals were totally civilised for centuries, cool people.

[kijijipro]

We Poles respect our Gorals, we see them as source of freedom, strength and culture. We even love the Muslim Tatars. Why? Because they love us and are part of us. Diversity always has to be a two way stream to even have a chance. You are guest in our land, you accept our ways or get out. Then we can try to see your way, and if its of any use to us, we will love you for it. This is the Polish way. The Polish way is something confused Europe of today could learn a lot from. Instead they ignore and deride. Change is afoot my friends. We will see who's right, very soon.

[Sebastian-jtup]

The Gorals are Poles whom later settled further south by valach law, which doesn't make them Romanian, Albanian, Indonesian or Ugandan.

[hahahah]

Wow... I come from another Slavic ethnic group from the Balkans, called 'Gorani', we live in Gora highlands between Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania, and we are traditionally shepherds just like Gorali people. We have very similar traditional clothes, and I noticed we even share a folk symbol, the one you can see at 0:30 on the white bag in the back, as well as on their clothes if you look close enough. I think it is known as 'Aphrodite flower'. We use it a lot too, to the point where some even start suggesting it to be part of our flag. It's also interesting that both groups have theories of the Vlach origin. Is all of this a total coincidence or there may be a connection?

[zui]

Gorals live and lived also in Slovakia, in Orava and Spiš region. I am 50% Goral with ancestors from this region. As a child I never understood during family visits the language, which older family members spoke goral dialect 😃. I also never understood, why it is such problem to acknowledge, that these people live now in various countries like Poland and Slovakia. In the past there was Austro-hungarian monarchy, one land. Gorals did not care about borders. They should not care also today 🤗.

[youyou_La_Colline]

I love you, people of goral ♥️⁩I like your fun personality and your culture⁦☺️⁩ I hope to live among you, Even my short time, Do you welcome me?
From Algeria⁦🇩🇿⁩😘

[etnogoral]

Please stop with the Romanian nationalist comments. Each village had a small amount of Vlachs settle and they were all either slavicised or plain old Ruthenians. The overwhelming amount of Gorals have genes similar to Poles and Slovaks

[doce]

Gorals in Poland are Romanian who emigrated there hundreds of years ago. The Romanian shepherds populated the mountain tops in Poland, bringing with them the civilization of the Carpathians and teaching the Poles to live in the mountains. Today, everything that is preserved in Poland as a tradition of mountaineering, shepherding, carpentry or rafting is a Romanian-Wallachian heritage.
The causes of the first arrivals would have been the difficult conditions in Transylvania, the lack of pastures and the fact that the Romanians were elite fighters, loyal to the Poles. Without a mercenary mentality, they showed great courage in battle, for which they were rewarded with rights and lands. Today, the Wallachians in the Polish Carpathians are completely Slavicized and retain only a few pastoral words or names of mountains, waters and villages. In phone books you can find names like Valach or Basarab.
Many old churches, although Catholic today, still retain the typical Orthodox mural decoration, and their houses and furniture are typically Romanian. The last "infusion" with a Romanian flavor entered southern Poland after the Second World War, when a large part of the Polish communities in Maramureș and Bucovina repatriated. They brought to the Zakopane area the Romanian language or the customs from the mentioned areas, including the famous Maramureș brandy.
The Gorals know that they are Romanians, they proclaim themselves as such (proudly), and the most famous folk group in those mountains is called, in translation, “Wallachian Chapel”, and is led by the violinist Zbyszec Walach. Some dishes are "like ours", the cheese is identical to the one from Transylvania, and the brandy (to taste and as a method of preparation) is the same as our horinca.
The Polish dialect they speak contains a number of archaic words of Romanian origin, including magura (măgură), fluier, cătun, vatră, brânză, merende ("merinde") or mlioara ("mioară").
💙💛❤

[Awesome-oyys]

Where can this be watched? Can't locate for streaming or purchase. . .

[mateuszciaranek]

I want to watch this movie this is life how my family was and want to know how hard it was only heard storys

[mariarozek]

Same question as below, where can we get this full documentary?

[redfire]

Reminds me of Swiss Highlanders who have a similar costume.

[vasarelly]

They are vlachs, related to valachas(romanians) and aromanians. Balcanic shepherds.

[clauclaudia]

"You will find such ethnic groups in other parts of Europe as well. It is not a mystery that a group exists near Albania. Not far from there, you can find Vlach villages in Greece, in the Epirus region. You will also find other groups of people whose languages contain traces of Old Romanian. They all live in mountainous regions and were originally shepherds.

They could have been the key to understanding the true history of Central and Southeastern Europe, but they were too silent, and others were too blind to see, hear, or understand the reality. History, as we know it, is a lie."

[wepolishjewschannelforhist]

I'd like to buy the film in the USA but in Polish not English. Where can I do that? Gdzie w USA moglbym kupic ten film w jezyku polskim?

[Alborigines]

In the highlands of southern Poland, live the Goral people.

According to Polish historians and sociologists, they are an ethnic group of Albanian/Romanian origin who migrated to Poland in the 14-17th century.

[elainem]

where can we find the full documentary?

[JohnGorny]

Well this is weird....pops family was from silesia, and moms from bukovina...and my lady now is Albanian. Funny how the dots find a way to connect on their own.